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#1 Chubby_Deuce

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Posted 13 February 2019 - 07:58

Something I've noticed about Autosport lately is that some articles about a test or race weekend session will include references to laptimes or finishing order in the body of the article but won't include them in a table at the bottom. Here's a recent example:

 

https://www.autospor...indycar-testing

 

I appreciate that the article gives some insight and analysis beyond just the laptimes but it also seems like it wouldn't be a big deal to include them so that you can glance over them after reading. Or is there a good reason that this isn't done universally?

 

More examples:

 

https://www.autospor...iggering-pileup

 

https://www.autospor...in-penske-acura



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#2 Chubby_Deuce

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Posted 23 March 2019 - 05:17

Is there somewhere on Autosport that I need to go to see full session times or do I need to find a different web site?

 

https://www.autospor...ening-practices



#3 Rob Ryder

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Posted 23 March 2019 - 07:53

FORIX, but you need to pay a subscription

 

Well worth the money :love:



#4 Chubby_Deuce

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Posted 23 March 2019 - 17:16

I have a subscription. Why can't the session report just include times?



#5 Rob Ryder

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Posted 23 March 2019 - 18:37

Because it's Autosport ! :lol:  :lol:  :lol:



#6 Chubby_Deuce

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Posted 03 March 2020 - 17:49

The lack of replies here make me wonder if I'm kind of alone in this complaint but I feel like this is a pretty fundamental thing...? Here's another set of examples.

 

https://www.autospor...test-for-hitech

 

https://www.autospor...-preseason-test

 

Why make readers piece things together from the article when it would be extremely easy to include the times?



#7 Ross Stonefeld

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Posted 03 March 2020 - 17:54

Though it was just me. You have the data, just format it. 



#8 PayasYouRace

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Posted 03 March 2020 - 22:50

I agree. It's very frustrating because I usually scan to the bottom of an article to see the times, and then scroll back up to read the summary.



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Posted 04 March 2020 - 07:39

The lack of replies here make me wonder if I'm kind of alone in this complaint but I feel like this is a pretty fundamental thing...? Here's another set of examples.

 

https://www.autospor...test-for-hitech

 

https://www.autospor...-preseason-test

 

Why make readers piece things together from the article when it would be extremely easy to include the times?

It's very annoying and close to just laziness



#10 Ross Stonefeld

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Posted 23 March 2020 - 00:40

All this hype for e-sports but e-results seem a step too far. 



#11 Rob Ryder

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Posted 23 March 2020 - 08:55

It used to be just spotty teenagers playing computer games... now it's E-SPORTS! :p  :rotfl:  :rotfl:



#12 Chubby_Deuce

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Posted 07 March 2021 - 23:44

MotoGP testing is back so I guess I'll bump this again.

 

Can we PLEASE, PLEASE get session times in the article for a given test/practice/qualifying/race? Please?

 

Here's another example:

 

Autosport's article on the MotoGP test: https://www.autospor...593878/?nrt=112

 

No results.

 

Motorsports.com's article: https://www.motorspo...tararo/5593980/

 

Same exact article but they've at least added the top 10 times.

 

Is the correct takeaway from this that I should stop subscribing to Autosport and just read Motorsport? Why spend the cash on a redesign of the site if the plan is to push Autosport readers onto other one of their media properties? Why haven't I stopped my automatic billing yet? All of these are mysteries that I suspect we'll never know the answers to.